8. WINDOWS INTERFACE
8.1 Desktop
The Desktop screen is as shown below and natively provides virtual desktop feature.
Virtual desktops gives you the ability to have multiple desktop interfaces on
your laptop and to switch between them like you have multiple monitors. With
this feature, you can create many desktops and respectively keep different apps
open, separating types of work.
You'll need to open the Task View to work with virtual desktops. To
do this, click its button on the taskbar, which is as shown on the left.
Note:
1. If you don't see the button, right-click on an empty spot of the Taskbar and
check the Show Task View button option.
2. You can also access Task View with the keyboard shortcut Win + Tab.
8.2 Creating a new desktop
For the first time, you'll only see the view at the top of the page.The first desktop
is your current one.
To create a second one, click the < New desktop> icon.
After creating a new desktop, you can simply click on the desktop you want to
switch to at the top of the screen.
8.3 Taskbar
The black bar on the bottom of the desktop is called Taskbar. It provides several
key features and they are:
• Start menu
• Search box
• App shortcuts area
• Notification area
Start Menu
To open the Start menu, you can either click on the windows icon
(which is also known as Start button) located at the left end of the
taskbar or press once on the windows key of the keyboard. And the
Start menu will appear, as shown below on the keyboard. Once opened
a list of features will be available.
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